> Doug asks:
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> why don't kids today want to read?
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> Given that enrollment is 2-3x today what it was in 1970, isn't it just as
> likely that the same number of "kids like to read" but they are being
> swamped by the, uh, <<hoi polloi>> (I kid!) ...?
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> <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk>
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http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2010/section1/indicator07.asp
*From 2000 to 2008, undergraduate enrollment increased by 24 percent to 16.4 million students. Projections indicate that it will continue to increase, reaching 19.0 million students in 2019.* and table at http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/2010/section1/table-hep-1.asp
The thing is, we see less and less prepared students (or at least I do). But more and more are going to college. When the part of me that says "There Was No Golden Age" kicks in, it wants to know how much the "more and more" corresponds with the "less and less," if you see what I mean.
j